If you’ve ever watched Andorra’s national football team in action, chances are you caught them on the end of a pummelling from one of the larger European nations.
The micro-state only played its first official international match in 1996, and their one and only competitive win came against Macedonia in 2004.
Of their small handful of victories, not a single one had come away from home…until tonight.
Andorra travelled to San Marino for a friendly, a match which can be described as a clash of whatever the opposite of titans is.
San Marino v Andorra is being billed "L Clasico"! Genius 👌
— Alex R Terrell (@alxterrell) February 22, 2017
They knew that their best chance of an away win would come in the meeting with a team which has not avoided defeat since 2015, and so it proved, with Ildefons Lima and Cristian Martínez finding the net in a landmark 2-0 victory.
Andorra win their first game since October 2004, ending a run of 86 games without a win. pic.twitter.com/3lqBSY6T5z
— Squawka (@Squawka) February 22, 2017
Lima’s goal saw him extend his record as Andorra’s highest ever goalscorer with a huge *eleven* goals in more than 100 international appearances.
They will enter their next World Cup qualifier – a home meeting with the Faroe Islands – with plenty of confidence. Still, perhaps they shouldn’t – they’ve lost all four of their qualifying games so far, scoring one goal and conceding 13.
